Hall of Fame
JoAnna Diebel Hesse was a standout for Macalester during all three sports seasons, earning four letters in soccer, three in track & field, and one in softball. She made the 1983 and 1986 All-MIAC and all-region soccer teams and is the No. 11 all-time goal-scorer in the program’s history with 24. In her first season, Diebel Hesse was voted the team’s top defensive player and as a senior led the Scots with nine goals while being selected best attacking player.
A star as well for some of Macalester’s best women’s track & field teams ever, Diebel Hesse ran to several school-record and all-conference performances running mostly from 200 to 800 meters. Her 1600-meter relay team placed second in the MIAC in ’86 and she helped set a school record a year earlier in the 800 relay. In 1987 she made the All-MIAC softball team after hitting .295 with 18 runs batted in.
She served as a director in the M Club two successive terms and was the first female to do so. JoAnna is a true ambassador of Macalester College in both the community and professionally pointing prospective students to the college and working with her employer’s human resources department to recruit from Macalester.
